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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	effect_n	good_a	reason_n	2,537	5	5.2979	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48313	A letter to Dr. E. Hyde in answer to one of his occasioned by the late insurrection at Salisbury.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.; Hyde, Edward, 1607-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing L1882; ESTC R21394	12,255	18

wraped up in mine if the treaty were seriously and sincerely intendped on his part But when I expressed my conceit that he was set on by you to make me an offer and but an offer and that only for your advantage he would not then own it with any relation unto you either as an efficient or finall cause of any motion toward a contract betwixt us nor did he in effect as you suggest give me you would say bid me for he gave me nothing as good as 300 li. And for the reason you render of being raised in the contribution that might have and in probability had no farther operation upon you then was commensurate with your concupiscence after a large portion of the parsonage which made you fear the fifths claimed by you would be so much the lesse as the charge was the greater upon the whole It was not then the sin of your civility that Mr. Day made such an offer at that time but your sin of hypocrisie now in pretending it was done to gratifie me Dr. H. Truth is I should have been contented with Fifths after that proportion and had rather have lost my share of 20 li. per annum then have given the Parishoners occasion of exacting upon you Answer Truth is It is weil Sir that there is some truth in your Letter though but a word yet is not that word so truly brought in by you as it should be for it leadeth in a sentence which no discreet man who knoweth you will believe to be true viz. that you had rather lose about 4 livre. a year then that I should be raised but the eighth part of that sum in the Military Assesment If you looke to be believed while you so lavishly bely your selfe that you may be mistaken for a moderate man you must finde out an example for Solomons Aphorisme Prov. 14. 15. The simple believeth every word Dr. H. But now you say since I make so ill use of all that I can do only to try how much I am content to suffer it is high time for me to send this letter of demand Answer But now c. I must therefore henceforth expect you will be more curst then you have been because you conceive you have been too kinde heretofore yet must I not think the worse of you for all that because you give two reasons for the change of your dealing with me 1. That you have done all you can to give me content that 's your meaning if you write sense though your form of words reach not so far 2. That I have abused your goodnesse by ungratefull returns only to try the extent of your patience He is well worthy I confes to be visited with the Rod who will not be won by the spirit of meeknesse and supposing me such an one you come to this resolution It is high time for you to send this letter to demand c. For your first reason that you have done all you can c. I am sure Sir you have done all you can to get all you could from me though never so much to my discontent and damage and this I can aver upon 4 years deare bought experience of such an inordinate desire in you as the Apostle calleth The root of all evill 1 Tim. 6. 10. Your second reason is That I have made ill use of your favourable usage of me only to try how much you are content to suffer You mean this because of my Book against the payment of a fifth part wherein I give reasons why I resolve to give it over and not to pay that unrighteous Tribute any more But why do you say it is only to try how much you are content to suffer what needeth that when I know almost ever since I knew you you were not content to suffer the losse of a Groat which you might either gain or save by any pretence of right may I not upon just cause conceive so of you when being to pay you 19 livre. 12 s. 2 d. upon very dear rates for over-worne utensils the first year of my comming to Br. you tooke the whole summe not abating so much as the odde two-pence of so hard a bargain and you know well enough by my Book that I refused to pay fifths not to try your patience but to free my selfe from your oppression And why do you say Now since you make so ill use of all that I can do Did I make any ill use of your pretended kindnesse in March last when your Letter beareth date or in November the last year when I sent you my printed Acquittance the next day after I received it from London That I doubt not as I said before is the ill use you mean If so why did you not write unto me until four moneths after Why were you so silent so long when that which so much offended you came to your notice so soon Why was it high time toward the latter end of March and no sooner Sir to deal plainly with you not my self onely but all who well know you and are best able to judge of you because they are men of sound judgement not swayed by partiality or passion to whom I have imparted the substance and circumstance of Mr. Day his offer and your demand by letter for their opinion on them both unanimously conceive and confidently say that your Now and high time point like the finger of a Dial to the high affronts of publick authority by the Cavaliers at Salisbury-Assizies and their high hopes of a general Insurrection of the people at home and the Invasion of great forces from Princes abroad whereof if I should say it is very probable you were not ignorant before the Plot brake out into open Rebellion I could render reasons which by judicious men will not be thought either feigned or frivolous and it will not be your wisdome to urge me to prove the presumption against you And though you may haply say that which you do not think it is but my uncharitable misconceit of you I can truly testifie that a man of worth and note in both Counties where you and I live told me you were under such suspicion of disloyalty to the present Government that you were to have been secured if some ill news which at that time made the greatest noise had proved true But that the time of plotting acting and giving out hopeful expectations of happy success to the destructive designe of your discontented party against the Lord Protector and all those who in conscience as well as in affection were engaged with him in the same common cause was the time when you were animated to resume your project upon me by Mr. D. his mediation of whom I have no minde to say any more then his relation to you extorteth from me and presently upon that to send me the letter to which I now addresse an answer may thus appear Vpon Monday morning the 12th of March Sir Ioseph